Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — IN A NUT SHELL [ARTICLE]

IN A NUT SHELL

A tornado visited Beno, Nev., destroying much property, but injuring no one. The warehouse of the Bucher & Gibbs Plow Company at Canton, Ohio, was burned. Loss $75,000. The residence of E. J. Elias at Buffalo, with its costly furniture -and bric-a-brac, was burned. Loss $75,000, insured. News lias been received of a tornado in the southern part of Fulton County, Ark. At Union three persons were killed. * Dr. Nicholas Senn, professor of surgery of the University of Chicago, expects a call to act as chief surgeon of ths Japanese army. James O. Johnson was attacked by robbers at bis home in the south part of Butler, Mo., and shot with a shotgun through tho arm, which made amputation necessary. They secured SOO and his watch. At San Jose, Cal., D. A. Poliimann, treasurer Of the Federated Trades Council of Santa Clara County, was held up and robbed of $230 and a gold watph and was then shot, perhaps fatally. * Tho steamship City of Columbus was launched at Peach's shipyards at Chester, Pa. Two previous attempts had been made to launch the vessel, but both times the steamship stuck on the ways. Eouise Clements and Joeie Rogers wers fstslly burned at Omaha, Neb., by an explosion of gasoline. They were preparing a meal when the store exploded, burning both of them almost to a crisp.